Synapsen
Hypertextual card catalog, which is to say a storage system on the basis of an electronic literature database that enables the management...
Synapsen is a hypertextual card catalog, which is to say a storage system on the basis of an electronic literature database that enables the management of bibliographies.
Synapsen is a hypertextual card-catalog written in Java, that is housed on a SQL-database based in the literature networking structure from Niklas Luhmann.
Features:
- Very easy installation procedure.
- Automatic or individual connections between all cards through common headwords.
- Easy editing, searching and viewing of reference entries.
- Direct search and download from OPACs like Library of Congress or GBV via the z39.50 interface.
- Produces fully BibTeX compliant output, tight connection to LaTeX, but also to word processors via RTF and copy & paste.
- Many individual formatting features while creating the bibliographical output.
- Data import and export via BibTeX und RTF.
- Complete support of Unicode, i.e., you can simultaneosly work with many different alphabets like Cyrillic, Hebrew or Chinese, etc.
- Support of SQL for the internal database server in order to procure future compatibility of your data. Linkage to external databases like mySQL also possible.